Hey, New Scientist! Yes, you, Roger Highfield, if your ego-trawl is working. This is how you correct a mistake that someone who writes for you made:
Correction: January 29, 2009
An article on Saturday about the book “The Other Side of Desire: Four Journeys Into the Far Realms of Lust and Lo...
Time passes, other things (cheese!) happen. Life gets hectic. And What I Did Last Sunday becomes a little too constraining, because we're now two Sundays ago.
The first time I saw this archway, which leads up onto the Tangenziale Est, I almost burst out laughing. It is not part of the wall; that...
Just a couple of mozzarella balls,1 nothing much to blog about. Except for one tiny thing: I made them! At home! And it is all Barbara Kingsolver’s fault.
I may have given the impression that her book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle is not very good. That would be wrong. It has its faults, no do...
Whoa. Surfer Dude does History of Science. On TedTalks, like, seven years ago. Cosmic. And hey, the planet isn’t getting warmer, y’know.
I knew him when ...
It takes me a while to catch up with things, sometimes, which is why I have only just watched Jennifer 8 Lee’s stunning talk at Taste3, transmitted through TedTalks. This was magnificent, everything a presentation should be. Packed with information, brilliantly illustrated (I’d like to see all the s...